imagination of their composer‚ they also explore and address the issues of their contexts. This is clearly the case with Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein (1818) which draws upon galvanism and the industrial movement and Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner (1992) which has been heavily influenced by Thatcherism and Reagonomics. Despite there being over 150 years between their compositions both these texts explore several common themes such as mankind’s loss of humanity and man attempting to play
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Was the film simply too cerebral? True‚ “Blade Runner initially polarized critics: some were displeased with the pacing‚ while others enjoyed its thematic complexity. (Nevertheless‚ it was) hailed for its production design‚ depicting a retrofitted future‚ (and) it remains a leading example of the neo-noir genre” (Wikipedia). Ridley Scott utilized German Expressionism in the film by transforming some real location shootings into gloomy backdrops of a claustrophobic futuristic city‚ and gritty techno
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DIGITAL DESIGN FLOW OPTIONS A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Sagar Vidya Reddy‚ B.E. ***** The Ohio State University 2001 Master’s Examination Committee: Professor. Joanne E. DeGroat‚ Adviser Professor. Steven B. Bibyk Approved by Adviser Department of Electrical Engineering ABSTRACT VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) IC design flow is a term used to describe
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Topic: Choosing adoption instead of abortion Purpose: To inform my audience about the many options there is instead of abortion. Introduction: Abortions kills as many Americans daily as the tragedy of 9/11. Every single year‚ abortion kills the same number of Americans as have been killed on all the battlefields in all of the wars in U.S. history combined. Central Idea: There are options‚ there are millions of childless couples who do not have the honor of knowing what it feels like to
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US Green shoe option Wilhelm (1999) lists three existing instruments of price stabilization in IPOs available in the US. The first one is the stabilizing bid: a bid posted by the underwriter at a price close to the offer price and properly identified as a stabilization bid. This mechanism‚ the only one regulated by the SEC‚ makes the action of the underwriter totally transparent to the market. The second mechanism involves penalties to syndicate members whose costumers flip shares in the first days
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SETTLED CALL WARRANTS Description • A call warrant is basically a derivative instrument which may be converted to its underlying share when its conversion price is paid within the exercise period. • A cash settled call warrant is where the issuer does not have the underlying shares readily at hand and will have to settle by way of cash to meet the call warrant holders’ conversion in the event the underlying share price rises above the conversion price. Background • Number of call warrants
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Exp#2 fork system call Aim To create a new child process using fork system call. Algorithm 1. Declare a variable x to be shared by both child and parent. 2. Create a child process using fork system call. 3. If return value is -1 then a. Print "Process creation unsuccessful" b. Terminate using exit system call. 4. If return value is 0 then a. Print "Child process" b. Print process id of the child using getpid system call c. Print value of x d. Print process id of the parent
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’The fear‚ anxiety and uncertainty of the future have shaped the composers’ values as well as their perspective of their own society’. Compare how this idea is represented in Frankenstein and Blade Runner. The 1818 Gothic Novel ’Frankenstein’ written by Mary Shelley and the 1982 science fiction film ’Blade Runner’ by Ridley Scott both challenge the values of the societies in which they have been set‚ expressing the composers’ critique of the advancement in science and technology‚ the consequences
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INDIAN ARMY BY SPEED POST Fax : 0755-2735980 Selection Centre Central Tele : 0755-2702223 Sultania Infantry Lines IVRS : 0755-2731245/2731255 Bhopal (MP)-462001 Web : www.joinindianarmy.nic.in SCC/7305/72/CU 16 Jan 2013 To Candidate Concerned Pl see your Name and Roll No on the website SSB INTERVIEW NDA-130 : JUN 2013 COURSE IN THE ARMY Dear candidate‚ 1. We are pleased to inform that you are nominated to attend SSB interview for
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This debate has been going on for over 4743 years. The first dated use of marijuana was in 2737 BC when the emperor of China‚ Shen-Nung‚ prescribes cannabis for beri-beri‚ constipation‚ ’female weakness‚’ gout‚ malaria‚ rheumatism and absentmindedness. One of the most interesting factors in this pro and con debate is that until the late 1800’s not many people were against the use of cannabis for medical purposes. But from 1856 - 1937 marijuana’s image as a medicine turned into the image as an intoxicant
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